rose between the thorns

Dave put the three fishies in their separate bowls directly beside one another. (The Fooshie Palace is nearly complete, but not yet.) The result was apparently rather humorous. ( betta flirting )

So I watched the Daytona 500. It was fascinating. I've never watched any Nascar before. But now that I've read a few of killerwhaletank's little stories, I am thoroughly intrigued. I am also much less lost when reading her journal now that I know who the hell these people are. (I was quite disappointed that Kasey Kahne didn't do better but somebody put him in the wall on the third-to-last lap, the bastards! Of course, my admiration of him is probably entirely inappropriate, given what I keep getting a mental image of him doing to poor Tony Stewart. Thanks, there, killerwhaletank; I think all new sports should be learned about exclusively through the realm of slash fanfiction. I was, myself, suddenly possessed with an overwhelming urge to read/write more of it. I will probably resist. But some of those boys are so damn cute.)
( such blue blue eyes... er, I mean, nice Ford )

Am doing a bit of desultory work on posting more of the epic-- I'm just thinking, what the hell. I'm not going to have much time to polish up the fanfiction any further than I have, except as the opportunity presents itself in exercises. I like to write it, it really is calming and affirming to work on, but I don't have time to edit it. So I'm just going to put up my beta fragments in as much completion as I can muster, and if I have time I'll write more and post it where it goes. I'll probably mention here if I update. For the moment, I've updated the overview page with very brief story summaries, and I added a whole lot more stories. I put the Valentine's stories into their chronological places on the overview page, though the slash ones are a bit A/U with regards to the rest of the stories as written, since I was still fighting against slashing anybody up until I gave in and did the Valentine's thing. (It was such fun...) So the other material predates that, and thus makes no mention of it.

Most of the 'fragments' are at least 3,000 words long and are in a reasonable state of polish, however, so they may be worth a read if you're a fan of the characters or the pairings or the setting or anything like that. I think many of them are good stories on their own. Though that might be vain of me. But at least they're long enough to have a narrative and some overarching character themes, I think.

I wish I had time to make it into a novel. But, in this format, it's sort of infinite. If I feel like writing about a certain part, I can just go insert it. It's a little like a collage, more than a painting; the continuity is not necessarily all there. And there are sections missing. But it's fun to write, and hopefully I'll be able to fill in my own gaps as time goes by.

I am terribly behind on Vikings Stuff, though. Am doing so much rewrite that Ch. 8 is stuck. Stuck. I doubt I'll be able to post on schedule, and this is bothering me. I don't know what to do, but am too tired tonight to do anything that involves original thought-- hence all the reposting of fanfic stuff.

aw, fuck

Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide.

Dave's gonna be pissed.

snurf

Amusing: Both the male bettas are somewhat weary, having been displaying almost nonstop for hours at the female. Both were sitting on the bottoms of their bowls looking listless when i came out this morning, but the minute I bent to look in on the female, both were up and challenging me. (She, on the other hand, hid from me.) "Don't you get all up on my woman!" Dave helpfully voiced-over, on behalf of the voiceless fooshies.

Not so amusing: I have a stuffy nose so stuffy it actually woke me from sleep. it's been misbehaving a couple days, getting sort of sniffly and urghy, and now half of it is just blocked, complete with pressure. CRAP.

Still less amusing: I don't feel well in general and am staring at Ch. 8 and know there's no way I can finish it by noon.

But, I am considering: I have rewritten much of Ch. 1 yet again. i might set up the password-protected, and accessible to non-lj friends, version of the Vikings Novel with it. And send out the revision to the two who so lovely-ly volunteered to help with beta-ing, to get their opinions on whether I'm headed in the right direction.

And, and this is a good thing, I have today off praise the Lord. If I had to work today I would be ded. Ug. Nose and headache and tummy is oogy and just hurt all over. And my ear hurts from my nose, which is obnoxious.

But the Nose keeps me from sleep, which makes the Good Thing a bit less Good because what's the point? I'm going to have to surf for NASCAR slash fanfiction (there is something wonderfully subersive about that phrase) to console myself, and then Ch. 1 or 8 or anything in between will never get finished.


Something else funny: I had to go hit "refresh" on my friends page to make sure I hadn't already written this entry. Mm, livejournal much?

ch. 8: not yet.

No, I won't be posting Ch. 8 yet. I can't.
I'm trying to get the passwd-protected portion of the site up, at least, but my head is splitting and the pressure behind my eyes is making webdesign difficult.
Also, I haven't entirely finished that Ch. 1 rewrite I was hoping to post.




So, this is officially me sucking. First week I've missed in 8 weeks. I don't even have a good reason. Yay! I suck and am a talentless hack who will never finish anything!! I don't care, i just wish the pain would let me sleep.

But I swear I will have the site up by tonight, if it kills me. Please, comment if you'd like a login and password so you can read the Vikings Novel's Hopefully Less Sucky Third Draft up there.

Note to self: Make a robots.txt for the website to make sure spiders don't get into the protected section.

10 things meme.

When I first saw this I thought, hey, I should be able to come up with some nifty things.
Then I thought it over and couldn't. Then I read some of the other answers out there and was like.... holy crap, a) y'all are cool, and b) my life has been pretty lame.

So I think I've managed to scrape out 10 things I've done, but I'm both reaching to make my adventures sound cooler than they were, and scraping to find mundane but unique experiences.
( so, 10 things already, if I can count. )

In other news, my headache made me decide that I couldn't do any of my lengthy to-do list. So I took a 2-hour nap. I feel a bit better (though the nose is still annoying, it's not actually painful pressure anymore) but am thoroughly depressed at how far behind I am. It's not like I have a second day to catch up. No. You'd think I'd get used to my weekend being a day here and a day there but I can't.

Dave, the absolute sweetheart that he is, waited to have lunch until I woke from my nap. And he didn't wake me. So, he gets lovies of the non-clingy sort at some point.

I don't believe this

Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers are touring with Indigenous.


And they're not coming east of the Mississippi.


Look at my music page, which is all the random songs I've loved enough to post for people to listen to, to see why this is such a fucking tragedy.

RGH.
Additionally, leopard_lady is creepy and psychic for sending me that link just after I idly decided to listen to Americano!.
In other news...
( when they raise the price of bread and lower the wage )

I love this song, incidentally.

Sing about the dawn in the middle of the night
Leave an open door behind you
Stumble through the dark so that we might see the light
Leave an open door behind you

And a funny thought of the day was Dave, talking about once we manage to join the gym. He said he'd match me pound for pound-- every pound I lost, he'd gain one. He estimated we'd meet at 165. I'd be damn sexy at 165. And Dave would be... well, I already think he's sexy, but he'd probably be more conventional-looking instead of skeletal at 165, which would be hawt. And it would be funny if we weighed the same.

update

being entirely unable to do anything really useful, i updated the fanfic epic some more. have uploaded several new sections dealing with rohan 3014-3017. These were never posted on HASA even in beta.

edited to add, since it seems silly to make another post:

I've now put up a great deal of the material that's, well, fit to post. Some needs editing for continuity. Anything that's just unfinished and fragmentary isn't posted. But anything long enough to stand reasonably on its own or with the other pieces is up. Sometimes stories end where there's obviously more material to cover, but they're at least at chapter-ends. ( in case anyone's interested )

I should have better webdesign skillz, but I should also be doing about twenty more productive things. Still and all, it's better than lying on the couch feeling ill. (My sinuses, I swear, I'm going to use a drill to relieve the pressure.)

I have made moderate progress on the Original Writings Protected Folder but it is just so much easier to paste these things into a template I made back when my brain kinda worked... so I've been doing that, to feel cleverer than otherwise.
This weekend sucked.